Larissa
22nd March 2003, 12:24
Last Thursday there was a big riot in my neighbourhood. The US embassy is only 7 blocks away from my house. The police, as usual, used tear gas and some pple broke bank windows.
I can say it's like an every day scene here. We are used to this. There's a hot atmosphere and this country has always been struggling for a real revolution.
From the Buenos Aires Herald:
Police used tear gas yesterday to crack down on a group of masked anti-war demonstrators who directed a hail of cobblestones at the US Embassy in the city neighbourhood of Palermo.
The incidents came at the end of an otherwise peaceful march attended by hundreds of Argentines angry at the US decision to attack Iraq. Some of the rioters, however, later moved on to destroy the windows of at least three banks nearby, police reported. The government of Eduardo Duhalde, meanwhile, said that it wants the United Nations to "immediately" launch a policy of humanitarian aid in Iraq to soften the impact of the war. "Argentina is promoting at the UN an immediate policy to replace the current food distribution programme in Iraq for a new one," said Foreign Minister Carlos Ruckauf. Security, meanwhile, continued to be tight at key sites and five hoax bomb threats were received at Ezeiza International Airport
Full article:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina...&hideIntro=true (http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=8609&hideIntro=true)
(Bear in mind that the Buenos Aires Herald is mostly a right-wing newspaper)
I can say it's like an every day scene here. We are used to this. There's a hot atmosphere and this country has always been struggling for a real revolution.
From the Buenos Aires Herald:
Police used tear gas yesterday to crack down on a group of masked anti-war demonstrators who directed a hail of cobblestones at the US Embassy in the city neighbourhood of Palermo.
The incidents came at the end of an otherwise peaceful march attended by hundreds of Argentines angry at the US decision to attack Iraq. Some of the rioters, however, later moved on to destroy the windows of at least three banks nearby, police reported. The government of Eduardo Duhalde, meanwhile, said that it wants the United Nations to "immediately" launch a policy of humanitarian aid in Iraq to soften the impact of the war. "Argentina is promoting at the UN an immediate policy to replace the current food distribution programme in Iraq for a new one," said Foreign Minister Carlos Ruckauf. Security, meanwhile, continued to be tight at key sites and five hoax bomb threats were received at Ezeiza International Airport
Full article:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina...&hideIntro=true (http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=8609&hideIntro=true)
(Bear in mind that the Buenos Aires Herald is mostly a right-wing newspaper)